"That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know."

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"O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die."

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"Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name."

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"Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary."

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"The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame."

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"Who says in verse what others say in prose."

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"Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise."

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"Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day."

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"Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died."

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"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound."

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"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg."

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"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light."

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"Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child."

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"The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy."

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"Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!"

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"Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restor'd, Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all."

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"Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise."

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"How sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast!"

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"Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days."

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"Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best."

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"The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain."

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"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee."

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"Forget the brother, and resume the man."

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"The long historian of my country's woes."

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"What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?"

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"Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died."

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"First in the fight and every graceful deed."

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"A faultless body and a blameless mind."

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"Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall."

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"The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, And one prodigious ruin swallow all."

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"Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more."

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"To Berkeley every virtue under heaven."

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"He 's armed without that 's innocent within."

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"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

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"Vital spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame!"

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"Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet."

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"Thou great First Cause, least understood."

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"Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree."

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"Base wealth preferring to eternal praise."

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"Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!"

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"And deal damnation round the land."

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"Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn."

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"Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might."

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"Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn."

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"From old Belerium to the northern main."

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"The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died."

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"Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er, But lived in Settle's numbers one day more."

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"No season now for calm familiar talk."

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"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."

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"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd."

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